We got to the rally

We both got up early this morning.  I was up by 4:30.  I slept well and had had enough sleep.  Bob got up by 5:15.  It was a little chilly, but our heater worked good.  (We have an electric heater that worked good when we are on electric and it broke.  So we thought, just pop into Wal-Mart - after all we are in their parking lot.  Well Wal-Mart considers heaters a seasonal item and does not reorder them in the spring until September.  Can't find one.  We'll probably find one when we get to Arizona where it is not seasonal - just not needed.) 

Anyway, we are volunteers at this rally and have been assigned to early security.  Our instructions said to get here on Saturday between 8 am and noon.  We got here at 8:05 (that is probably the latest we have ever been.)  There were no signs, no people telling us where to go.  There were however, thousands of very large rvs parked here.  After driving around in circles, we discovered that there is another rally that is just ending.  The folks from our rally "were a little behind" in getting things set up.  I finally found the main office and the guy did not know where we should go.  He said he was from the main office in Ohio and just got here yesterday at 4 pm.  He looked over our stuff and agreed that it did not tell us where to go. He called someone who said that they would come get us in a few minutes.  Thirty minutes later we were still waiting.  So I went back to the main office.  He called again.  He finally decided to look for a map and find out where we should go.  Just as he did, Bob called and said that they had come to get us.  We went to the "holding area" and they tried to decide where to put us.  They saw Bob's disabled placket and suggested that we go for the disabled lot.  They put us right in front and center.  There is no one around us yet, but it is easy access to everything.  And we have power and water.  (We can pay to have someone come dump our holding tanks.)

I took a walk around the area and then it was lunch time.  I suggested that we have sandwiches and offered to go into town and get potato salad.  I got lost.  Wound up going down the Interstate in the wrong direction and couldn't get off for more than 10 miles.  Finally got back with potato salad and cole slaw and we had a great lunch. 

The orientation for our early security assignment was this afternoon.  It should be really easy.  We just sit there and tell people not to bother the exhibitors while they are setting up.  The most important thing for us is to remember to take chairs, water, and reading materials.  Even so, we don't have any duties until Monday, so we have all day tomorrow to get laundry done and take a look at the town.  We might even go out to a nice prime rib dinner.  In the meantime we have a huge welcome packet of information to go through and then leftover Mexican food for dinner tonight. 

The weather is definitely better - i.e., the wind has died down.  Apparently while we were going through the wind storm in Cody, they had a tornedo warning here in Gillette.  But the predictions are that the weather will be nice for the week that we are here.  Also, because we are under 5000 feet in altitude (like probably 4500)  Bob is feeling much better.  He can actually walk without pooping out.  (There was a point when we were at 8000 feet and wanted lunch, we found a parking spot about 100 feet from the restaurant, and we decided not to go there because Bob could not walk the 100 feet.)  Also, I think he had a touch of the flu and that is over also.  So, on to this part of the trek.